Guard to flat-irons



JOHN O. BRIGGS,

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OF CONCORD, NINV HAMPSHIRE.

GUARD TO FLAT-IRONS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 31,295, dated February 5, 1.861.

T o all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN O. BRIGGS, of Concord, in the county of Merrimack, in the State of New Hampshire, have invented an Improveinent for Flat-Irons or Sad- Irons; and I do hereby declare that the tollowing is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in applying to the flatiron of ordinary use, a cover or reflector' of more or less highly polished metal for the purpose of preventing the radiation ot' heat; thus enabling the iron to become hot itself quicker, hold the heat longer and heat the person using it less.

Figure l represents a atiron with my invention applied. The cover or reflector (A) is simply a piece of sheet metal of polished surface shaped to tit loosely the top of the body of the ordinary liatiron (B) and perhaps shut-down partly over the sides of the iron, and with apertures in it for the two legs of the handle. The cover or reflector is made of a single piece of metal.

A cut or slit is made longitudinally in it leaving the two ends Whole. Two short cuts are made at the ends of the longitudinal one so that the three form three sides of a parallelogram. The included leaf (a a) is then bent up (see Fig. 2). Notches (b, 6,) are then cut for the legs or' the handle. The opening (0,) made by bending up the leaf (a c o) must be of suliicient size to admit the handle of the fiatiron through it.

To put the cover on, pass the handle through the opening (0,) then bend back the leatl (a a) to its original position, leaving the legs of the handle in the notches (I) b) cut aivay for the purpose. It is then ready for use.

That I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,-

The combination, of the cover or reflector made substantially as described above, With a fatiron or sadiron as, and for the purposes, described.

JOHN C. BRIGGS.'

)Vitnesses L. T. F LINT, S. G. GRIFFIN. 

